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The Lone Star Line

The Lone Star Line

by | Mar 28, 2019 | Features & Gunfights

Prior to the Civil War, it was realized that an efficient way to deliver the mail and passengers across the country was needed. In 1857, the U.S. Congress authorized the postmaster to contract for just such a service. In that same year, he sealed an agreement with...
Women of the Alamo

Women of the Alamo

by | Feb 4, 2019 | Features & Gunfights

We remember the Alamo siege and battle for the men who died there. Not as well remembered are their families who endured the thirteen-day siege and final battle alongside them. Gunfire had barely ceased in and around the Alamo on the morning of March 6, 1836, when...
Women of the Alamo

Women of the Alamo

by | Feb 4, 2019 | Departments

We remember the Alamo siege and battle for the men who died there. Not as well remembered are their families who endured the thirteen-day siege and final battle alongside them. Gunfire had barely ceased in and around the Alamo on the morning of March 6, 1836, when...
Best of the West 2019: Western Movies

Best of the West 2019: Western Movies

by | Dec 25, 2018 | Features & Gunfights

Ever since The Virginian, Owen Wister’s genre-defining Western novel, female characters have traditionally been portrayed as the civilizers. Even though in 1939’s Stagecoach, we preferred the “bad” woman, Claire Trevor’s Dallas, the respectable townswomen were hard at...